Leo Deutsch

Leo Deutsch (26 September 1855-5 August 1941) was an early leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and its Menshevik faction.

Biography
Leo Grigorievich Deutsch was born on 26 September 1855 in Tulchyn, Podolia, Russian Empire, the son of a Jewish merchant. He became a Marxist propagandist, and he was arrested in 1875; he would escape from custody over the next few years and attempt to organize a revolution among the peasants of southern Russia. In 1880, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland while leading the Black Repartition group, and he supported Julius Martov, Georgi Plekhanov, Pavel Axelrod, Leon Trotsky, Irakli Tsereteli, Moisei Uritsky, Noe Zhordania, and Feodor Dan in founding the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He was arrested in the German Empire and deported to Russia, and he escaped from prison in 1901. Deutsch went into exile in England after the 1905 Russian Revolution, and he returned home after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Deutsch died in Moscow in 1941 at the age of 85.